riverviewlogs | 001 - August Happenings! [OPEN]

who: Kate Fuller & OPEN
what: August Post
when: 1st - 15th
where: Library/Coffee Shop/Bar/Around
warnings: N/A

Library/Coffee Shop[Open]

Kate had taken Cisco's advice and started taking part time classes while in quarantine. She doesn't have a specific plan for the future but she's having fun and doing something with her time besides working. She's decided to take calculus, a mechanics course with a Lab component and anthropology. Being overly studious meant that she wanted to get ahead before her classes even started. She could be found at the library or at a coffee house taking up a table with notes, textbooks and random post-its.

She's wearing plaid with a tank-top underneath and a plan pair of jeans. She's mindful of those around her while also remaining focused on her task. Besides textbooks she has what looks like a safe lock at her table that she's occasionally fiddling with. In a strange way picking and resetting the tumblers in the lock helped her relax and focus.

There are things that she didn't want to forget and bit by bit she felt them slipping away; maybe she just didn't want a normal life anymore.

The Quarantine[Open]

Kate didn't know what kind of bar the Quarantine was going to be but it didn't really matter. Her goal was to visit Drew while he was working. She had managed to get a job as a waitress with a boss who was willing to train her as a bartender but she still wanted to do some research on her own.

She wasn't dressed to be at a bar, wearing a cardigan and a pair of jeans, but she was open to talking to those around her. There was a light orange drink in front of her that sat mostly untouched. She wanted to try it and learn what was inside of it but she could only taste the sugar on her tongue.

Kate's thoughts twisted and wandered, wondering if bartenders had to know about wine or beer or if it was just mixed drinks. She played with a small plastic sword that had been in her drink with a cherry before she ate it. She wasn't looking to get drunk but Kate really wasn't an expert drinker.

Wildcard

[ooc: Come at me. Kate can be found walking home late at night or around the shared housing or getting a feel for the city so feel free to run into her; literally or figuratively. You can also hit me up for plans.]

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It could be useful. Kate found it easy to agree to that statement. Everything was useful because everything was born out of a want or desire. It was needed in some way, even if you weren't sure what way that was. She wondered the purpose of these books were. To spread information was the obvious though but besides that, books can also bring comfort or they could be an escape.

There are too many guesses.

"In a sense." She spoke softly, her fingers gently running along the metal lock. "I didn't get a chance to go to college before." There were many things that Kate didn't get the chance to do. "I didn't plan for the future. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do and what I like. I signed up for Archology and Engineering classes to start."

It wasn't anything fancy and Kate was ahead enough in her studies to already know about a fourth of the subject matter but it was interesting to learn about new things. "I've been told there are a lot of ruins here. I thought maybe there might be an answer out there." Though, she'd have few ways to protect herself if she ever left the city proper.

Archeology and engineering. It was a strange combination, and Vincent found himself curious as to what sparked it. He'd heard her, of course, that she was trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life now that she had one, potentially.

Archeology made sense, given there being so many ruins, but he also found himself curious as to what she thought she'd find. So many in Kate's position would give up, seeing nothing in their future, assume there was nothing worth fighting for after death had taken them, lamented their lot in the afterlife. Vincent figured he'd probably be among them.

Kate was an admirable woman, whether she realized it or not. "So...you want to find answers? Answers to what?"

"I don't know for sure. I have questions but I have a feeling that those will change once I start looking." In Kate's experiance, things were rarely as simple as they seemed. She wanted to know what was out there, who lived here before and why they were so set on using the portal.

How could it suddenly stop working? Why? There were pieces of the puzzle that were shrouded in uncertainty.

"This is a moon with pieces of many other worlds. It's possible to have ruins from other worlds too." Kate was considering a lot of possibilities.

It occurred to him that Kate had nothing to return to. She would most likely be dead in her own world, and this place truly did offer her the second chance she wanted. More than that, that chance included an all new home, complete with histories, peoples how had come before, and she had a naturally inquisitive mind. It left her seeming innocent, though he'd seen the sadness in her eyes, knew that the weight of some event somewhere, or sequence thereof, had taken away true innocent from her long ago.

All scientists, at least those left uncorrupted by the pursuit of power, shared that innocence, that sparkle of desire to know, that spurred them on, even when answers seemed always just beyond their reach.

"You...have a scientific mind." Vincent never had. It was one of the many bolts driven between himself and his father, even before his death.

Kate wouldn't let anything get her down. She had her low moments, when she wasn't sure what to do, but she never let it stop her. She would face gods and demons for the people that she cared about and she knew that for them, and for herself, she had to keep going. She might have lost her innocents but she'll never lose her heart.

"Thank you." She smiled at him.

"What about you? What would you look for?"

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